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Women and Gender Studies

How to use this guide

This guide includes various tools to help with your research, including journal articles, videos, images, citations, and library services. 

On the left side of the page is the page navigation that you can use to jump to different sections of the guide, and my contact information is included below. Please reach out if you need help with your research, and I'd be happy to help via email as well as through Zoom.  To schedule a reference appointment for further help with your research, send me an email at mimmo@asu.edu.

Research databases

Depending on your topic, here are some of the best databases for getting started: 

Interdisciplinary

Discipline Specific

Other useful databases

Here is a list of selected databases that are also valuable for gender studies research:

Top journals

Google Scholar Metrics allows authors to view journal rankings and ratings by various h-indices.  Journal ranking can be viewed for the top 100 publications in 9 different languages, or by broad subject research areas and numerous subcategories. Scholar Metrics uses those articles published between 2009 and 2013 and citations from all articles indexed in Google Scholar. 

Top Publications in:

Newspaper articles

Ethnic NewsWatch - Full-text of ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines and journals. Represents the diversity of the American population in ways that are not seen in the mainstream media.

Alt-PressWatch - Full text database of selected independent newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative press. Provides an alternative to mainstream media perspectives on local, national, and international issues.

Access World News - Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.

Arizona Republic - Includes full text of articles, editorials, notices, and obituaries from the Arizona Republic.

Nexis Uni - Full text of over 5,000 newspapers, trade publications, legal periodicals, and professional journals.

Proquest News & Newspapers - Metasearch of newspaper sources, including historical, regional, and contemporary.

Proquest Historical Newspapers: New York Times - Access to historical archive of New York Times and other historical newspapers.  Good starting point for primary research. 

 

Primary and archival material

Online encyclopedias

Here are a some of our specialized encylopedias that are available online: